joeyager

For more than 125 years, Mason United Methodist Church has been woven into the life of Tacoma’s Proctor neighborhood. Like many congregations, Mason found itself asking what it meant for them to be the church in their community, and how they might steward resources for the flourishing of their neighbors.  In 2023, Mason joined the Faith Land Discernment Cohort to imagine new possibilities for the land and buildings they steward. Over the past year, we’ve had the privilege of accompanying...

By Joey Ager At Design for Peace our vision is a growing ecosystem rich with contextually rooted experiments across Cascadia. As we accompany congregations in repurposing their underutilized spaces, we offer teams a design process to bring about viable new uses of church space that are rooted in context, supported by the congregation and community, and missionally aligned with the vision of Shalom.  This design process takes place in three concentric phases: discernment, design and...